Los Banos, CA Trash & Recycling: Illegal Dumping (2026)

113 makes it unlawful and an abatable nuisance for any person to abandon or dump nuisance vegetation or junk upon public property, any public street, sidewalk, or alley, or upon private property in the City. The unauthorized leaving of nuisance vegetation or junk is punishable as an infraction or misdemeanor. A companion provision in the same section separately bars dumping garbage, trash, rubbish, nuisance vegetation, or junk into any garbage container without the express permission of the person who owns, rents, or legally controls that container, closing off the common workaround of using a neighbor's bin.

111 to include accumulations of construction debris, unstacked firewood, recyclables left in public view for more than half of any ten day period, and discarded appliances or furniture, so a dumped mattress or couch triggers the same prohibition as a load of loose debris. 114 places an affirmative duty on every property owner to remove junk and nuisance vegetation that has accumulated on their land, including the abutting half of the street, alley, and sidewalk, and failure to do so is separately punishable civilly, criminally, or administratively. 115 authorizes the City to charge escalating reinspection fees starting with the third reinspection, collected through the Finance Department or assessed against the property.